Job Description:

Federal Soup is the trusted resource for active, retired and prospective federal employees looking for information and news stories that affect their career, benefits and finances.

This freelance position will be an integral part of a collaborative newsroom, reporting and researching both spot news and big-picture trends. We are looking for experienced reporters and news aggregators, but both current students and recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Pay is competitive and commensurate with experience, length of articles and the degree of difficulty involved in their execution.

Responsibilities:
• Cover legislation and the federal government workforce, newsmaker appearances and other spot
news that affects federal employees
• Monitor and aggregate relevant news from other media outlets
• Gather data and other research for larger stories
• Help conceive and develop story ideas